But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they go out into the world unprepared for the intellectual battles they are about to encounter, especially on secular college campuses.

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.